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In this SolarWinds Customer Zero story, team members share how they use SolarWinds products every day across observability, incident response, enterprise service management, log analytics, Kubernetes monitoring, and self-hosted infrastructure monitoring. Hear how internal teams serve as the first customer by testing real-world workflows, sending direct product feedback, and helping shape the platform through hands-on use.

Wolt operates in 30+ countries. Every order, every restaurant, every courier runs on the same infrastructure. When it breaks, it doesn't slow things down, it stops everything. Wolt's VP of Engineering shares why Apache Kafka sits at the heart of their platform, what seven years of partnership with Aiven looks like in practice, and how they're building the data foundation needed to get AI working at scale.

What does a truly supportive, forward-thinking career launchpad look like? In this video, our team members—Arun Balan, Kaviprakash V, Sriram Srinivasan, and Suvisesh R—share their authentic growth stories within iOPEX. From conquering the steep learning curve of a brand new industry to leveraging advanced AI systems and stepping into impactful leadership roles like Scrum Master, they reveal what makes a "no-roadblocks" corporate culture possible.

Let’s be honest: traditional automation breaks the second it hits a scanned PDF, a messy email thread, or an architectural drawing. Rules-based RPA simply lacks the cognition required to decode unstructured data. In this episode of, Project Manager Swetha K J breaks down exactly how we conquered this massive roadblock on our automation journey. By embedding advanced AI models directly into automation workflows, we’ve built a context-aware architecture that transitions systems from static execution to dynamic intelligence.

Latency spikes are easy to detect. Understanding why they happened is the hard part. Gidi Freud explains how Lightrun helps engineers debug latency spikes by automatically capturing runtime context when a execution of code exceeds a defined threshold. Instead of only seeing that a method or code block was slow, you can capture local variables and source location from the exact execution that crossed the threshold.

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The Aiven MCP connects Claude, Cursor, and VS Code to Apache Kafka. Inspect topics, track consumer lag, stream a database in with CDC, and manage your cluster. AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

AI agents write code fast, but without a validation layer, fast just means faster bugs. In this video, we connect Claude Code to the CircleCI MCP server so Claude can trigger pipelines, pull build failures into context, and iterate until everything is green. No context switching. No copy-pasting logs.

When incidents pile up fast enough, every part of the company bleeds: support is fielding angry customers, AEs are on apology calls, and engineering is burning cycles on retrospectives instead of shipping. For Eran Kampf (VP of Engineering at Twingate, Co-founder Monday.com) where the product is the network, that was the moment he made a call most engineering leaders won't: stop all feature work for a quarter and fix reliability.

A vulnerability scanner tells you what's wrong with dependencies you've already pulled. A dependency firewall decides what enters your environment in the first place. Instead of pulling blindly from public registries, every request is proxied through the firewall – where policy controls what's permitted, threat intelligence flags malicious packages that scanners never see, and enforcement happens at the earliest possible point. Scanning what's already inside is too late.